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TIL sharks don’t have any bones, their skeletons are made of cartilage

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QJBRM TIL, William Shakespeare invented or introduced over 1,700 words into the English language that we still use today.
LQWnP TIL the word Snafu started off as a military acronym for the phrase Status Nominal: All Fouled Up. The military acronym started in the 1940s and was meant to highlight situational messes on missions. The term has since graduated to accepted slang.
166X8 TIL The longest wedding veil ever stretched over 63 football fields in length
M7VEB TIL that 'Magikkun', which means “mask fraud”, is a word that South Koreans use to describe people who hide their facial features by wearing masks on dating apps.
GY9e5 TIL that the GPS service used globally is paid for by the U.S. Department of Defense, and costs upwards of a billion dollars annually.